Ros's Birthday

Ros opening her presents with the help from her willing Assistants who were on hand just in case she forgot how to open the paper.

My Mum and Dad very naturally posing for a photo -love you guys!

The Birthday cake and song were sung and of course Ros again had some willing assistants to help with blowing out the candles just in case she forgot how to do that as well.

Fathers Day 2011

Jason opening his presents with the boys. As you can see Zach is happy to have his photo taken at any opportunity.

My Dad, Grandad, opening his presents and showing the boys a closer look of what he got from Lachlan from the Father's Day stall at School.

Greg with his shirt on that he received from his girls.

This year we were lucky enough to have everyone over to celebrate the day as my sister and her family were down in Brisbane for the weekend so they joined us as well as my Mum and Dad. We enjoyed some homemade pizzas and pavlova for lunch and then in the afternoon Jason and Greg headed off to the football to watch the Broncos play as Jason had some free tickets from work.

Artist in the family

I have to state up front that Jason and I don't have an artistic bone in our bodies. Lochie has really taken to drawing lately and his pictures are getting better and better all the time - better than what I could do that's for sure. We were surprised and delighted recently when Lochie got a Happy Gram at school at Assembly on Monday morning for his Spooky Spirits Oil Pastel Drawing. His teacher then said a week later that she had entered it in an Art Show which was being held at his School on the weekend. How proud are we!

Lachlan the tough pirate

Lachlan recently had book week at school and they had to dress up as a book character. Both my boys aren't usually very keen to dress up in costumes and I'm not particularly good at making them but we came up with a pirate costume representing a favourite book of both the boys called 'Boris the Tough Pirate'. He also got to take a toy sword to school so he thought that was pretty cool.